Authors Guild Petulantly Whines About How Wrong It Is That The Public Will Benefit From Google Books | Techdirt

abernard102@gmail.com 2016-04-20

Summary:

"Yesterday we wrote about the fairly unsurprising, but still good, news that the Supreme Court had rejected an attempted appeal by the Authors Guild of the really excellent fair use decision by the 2nd Circuit appeals court over whether or not Google scanning books to build a giant, searchable index was fair use. It's no surprise that the Authors Guild -- which has been tilting at this particular windmill for over a decade -- was upset about the refusal to hear the case, but I wasn't quite expecting the level of ridiculous sour grapes that were put on display: 'Blinded by the public benefit arguments, the Second Circuit’s ruling tells us that Google, not authors, deserves to profit from the digitization of their books,' said Mary Rasenberger, executive director of the Authors Guild. Did you get that? The Authors Guild is so completely out of touch that it actually thinks that 'public benefit arguments' have no place in copyright disputes, despite the very fact that the Constitutional underpinnings of copyright law is to maximize the public's benefit. And, of course, this all ignores the fact that the vast, vast majority of authors greatly benefit from such a searchable index in that it drives more sales of books ..."

Link:

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160419/00081534205/authors-guild-petulantly-whines-about-how-wrong-it-is-that-public-will-benefit-google-books.shtml

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oa.new oa.comment oa.google.books oa.authors_guild oa.litigation oa.digitization oa.copyright oa.licensing oa.fair_use oa.libre

Date tagged:

04/20/2016, 08:52

Date published:

04/20/2016, 04:52